“Most everything makes me laugh. It’s harder to make me stop laughing than it is to make me start.” She peers at Evander suspiciously, narrowing her eyes as if trying to see through him. “Definitely not tickling though. Don’t even think about it. Shit. You’re thinking about it, aren’t you...”
What do they think is the worst think that can be done to a person?
“Besides tickling them? Not kissing them when they clearly want to be kissed. It’s cruel and unusual punishment. It’s the sort of thing that can make a girl with an otherwise happy life collapse in a fit of despair. You don’t want that, do you? Do you?”
OOC: I apologize. Malika just wants to hit on your character today so the player needs to take over here. Trapping someone is the worst thing you can do to a person. Enslaving them. Forcing them into contracts. Making it so that they have to do whatever you want at all times and making all possible options for escape no option at all. The dehumanizing control over another person is the worst thing that can be done.
List several phrases your character is fond of uttering. Where did they pick them up?
“You act like you don’t know. Come here, Let me whisper them in your ear.”
OOC: Uh. Sorry again. Anyway! Malika doesn’t have catch phrases that are uniquely hers. "Hey, you” shows up occasionally. When she’s mildly disappointed in something she says “Aww.” a lot.
One thing she does do is to steal and repurpose someone else’s catchphrase if they use it on her enough. She does this in a teasing, but very affectionate, manner. For instance, she uses “Yeah, okay” on Evander when it feels like moment calls for it.
What sort of legacy does your character wish to leave behind?
“I don’t care about that. The future? Why should I worry? Why should I care?”
OOC: She probably believes that, but it isn’t true. She wants to be remembered. She doesn’t need to be written about by scholars. She needs to be a fun story on the lips of strangers who chanced to encounter her. She needs to be a memory to people who matter to her too. But it’s not the name they assign to her that matters to her-- it’s just the memory of her existence in their lives for one fleeting moment that matters. That’s why she leaves (and takes) tokens. So that someone can look at the item and remember her and so that for one fleeting moment she feels like she had a connection and that she mattered.
So the legacy that she wants isn’t: “Malika Bajhiri was so great! She did these 5 heroic deeds and changed the world!” It’s “There once was a girl who stole a feather from my hat and put a moonstone in my pocket.” She feels like that is a more personal and interesting story to tell anyway.
Thanks for the Ask!